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Thinking Critical
Applying Your Skills
Geography Roulette
100
Define geography
What is the study of where people, places and things are located?
100
Science and Technology
Recent technology advances have helped geographers study the earth.
Sonar, satellites, global positioning system (GPS), gepgraphic information system (GIS)
100
Explain how Texas can be considered part of more than one region.
Texas is part of the United States, as well as its own political region goverened by the state laws.
(Other answers: Considered southern and western state or part of the Sunbelt
100
The number of layers of the earth shown in the diagram.
What is four?
100
Three most common causes of erosion.
What are water, wind and glaciers?
200
Two lines create the hemisphers.
What is the Equator and the Prime Meridian?
200
Geographic Tools
Name the 3 kinds of physical characteristics geographers use to describe a place.
What are landforms, ecosystems and climate?
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
You may risk zero to your total points.The category is Geography Themes.
Name 3 of the 5 themes of geography.
What is location, place, human environment interaction, region, movement.
200
This layer contains continents and other landforms?
What is the crust?
200
Explain Pangea
What is several continents seem to fit together like a jigsaw. Also, some fossils from South America, Africa, India and Autralia have been found to be almost identical.
300
Formal region define and give one example
What is an area in which certain characteristics are found throughout the area.
Examples: states, countires, cities...
300
Name the two internal forces that shape the earth's landforms.
What are volcanos and movement in the crust's earth?
300
Suppose you that you were planning to build a new road, list the grographical information you would need and how it would be used.
What is Information about population patterns and urban growth would help determine road location; information about about elevation, terrain, and vegetation would be helpful in the construction of the road.
300
The mantle layer would be hotter or colder than the inner and outer core, explain your reasoning.
What is cooler because the mantle gets its heat from the inner and outer cores.
300
The difference between chemical weathering and mechanical weathering.
What is mechanical weathering breaks apart a rock; chemical weathering alters a rock's chemical makeup.
400
Define core. Draw and label the core.
What is the center of the earth?
400
Name 5 human characteristics that geographers use to describe a place.
What are type of economy, government, language, customs and beliefs?
400
You would use this type of location to help you plan your vacation trip.
What is relative location to determine how to get from place to place?
400
Movement of the cores would be considered which force?
(interior or exterior)
What is interior?
400
Define plate techonics.
What is the earth's outer shell is not one solid sheet of rock?
500
Define lithosphere. State two examples
What is the solid, rocky part of the earth's crust?
Examples:mountains, deimentary rocks, metamorphic rocks, granite, seafloor, soil
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
You may risk zero to your total amount of points. The category is science and technology.
Name what technology advancements help geographers.
Sonar, satellites, global positioning system (GPS), gepgraphic information system (GIS)
500
People refered to the Great Plains as the "Dust Bowl" in the 1930s for this reason.
What is planting crops destroyed natural grasses that held the soil in place. Exposed to the wind and dry conditions from a drought, the sould could easily be blown.
500
Name two types of location.
What is relative and absolute?
500
Name the ways that peope affect the environment in a negative way.
What is building roads, polluting the air with cars and factories, polluting water with farm chemicals and cutting down forests?